White Names Spoiled Past/Characters

Most of the characters in White Names Spoiled Past are original and non-existent in the Touhou Project. The following three are, however, officially part of the Touhou Project and are playable characters in White Names, each with two different shot types. All other characters are the originals.

Please note that the game's author has mentioned the characters' profiles are not written 100% objectively, and may contain misdirection so as to not spoil who the culprit is.

Abilities: Capable of making a single object pass through two places simultaneously

Tokubi carries two guns, an electron gun and a photon gun. When she uses these guns, a strange phenomenon occurs where bullets hit 2 locations, despite her only firing 1 shot. She immersed herself in scientific research, as she wanted to understand her ability's true nature. At this time, her proclivity for research was praised by the physics-worshiping god of fire, Atago, and she came to serve Atago as her Head Secretary. While many gods in Atago's militia desire success and promotion, Tokubi has no particular interest in fighting for power, and is simply content to research her own ability. However, as she continued her studies, she determined that it actually worked by causing parallel worlds to overlap with her own, and became frightened of the hostility she would face for having this potentially-omnipotent strength. During the current incident, she's outraged at suddenly being put under suspicion of being the culprit. She met up with Reimu, an incident resolution specialist, and set out to find the truth behind the incident. So that she can continue her research in peace once more...

Shiragiku Kayano Linné (白菊＝萱野＝Ｌ) is a playable character partnered with Marisa, as well as a possible stage 3 boss.

Concept

Name

"Shiragiku" means "white chrysanthemum". "Kayano" means "daylily field," and serves to indicate her connection to the goddess Kayano-hime. "Linné" is taken from Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy.

A tsuchinoko who serves the god of plants, Kayano-hime. She's made many great achievements within Kayano's militia, rose to the rank of Lieutenant General at amazing speed, and even received the name "Kayano" from Kayano-hime herself. She's considerably famous in the world of the gods, and may easily be thought of as having a higher position than your average god, despite technically being a familiar. Perhaps her greatest achievement is that she's served as a manager for many gods. She's granted names to newborn gods who didn't have any, and those who've suffered from a lack of faith, and enabled them to accrue as much faith as they wanted. Even today, having received a name from her is taken as a sign of great status amongst less-central gods. In the midst of her militia's ongoing battle with rival forces in Gensokyo, she happened to meet a god who had amnesia. She sensed, however, that this god had a great deal of power, and was excited at the prospect of being promoted after serving as this god's manager. But just then, an incident began that had the potential to crowd out this new god's faith. In a panic, she joined up with Marisa, an incident resolution specialist, and set out to resolve the incident.

A god who has lost her memory for some reason. She came to Gensokyo a long time ago, but as the years went by, she forgot her own identity. Her well of faith ran dry, and all she could do was wait to fade away. In the midst of her troubles, she met Shiragiku, and made her debut as an all-new god. These were the few memories she had left: her name contained the kanji "憶" (oku), a kanji that could be pronounced as "jin", the kanji "皆" (mina), a kanji pronounced "yu", and finally, some kind of ability to "send off ki". Upon hearing this, Shiragiku gave her a name.
"Perhaps you don't have any memories... because that's what your ability was to begin with? You're a god who sends awaykioku-- that is, 'memories'. You take memories from 'everyone' (皆 / mina), and make them a thing of the 'past' (故 / yu). You take bad 'memories' (記憶 / kioku) and crush them up like 'dust' (塵 / chiri, or 'jin'). Based on what you remember, I'd say your name is Minayu Okuchiri."
Upon hearing this, Minayu thought it made a lot of sense. Even if this wasn't really her identity, she could at least make a debut as a new god until she got her memories back. However, soon after that, an incident began that threatened to overwrite her newfound faith. Fearing that her very existence would be threatened, she decided to seek help from the Moriya Shrine, which had a reputation for incident resolution and was home to some very famous gods.

One of the Big Four of Mt. Ooe, and a chief officer of the oni. She comes up from Hell from time to time, and puts on spoken performance art such as rakugo or kyougen in the Human Village. She's incidentally a master in any form of entertainment, with skill and delicacy unthinkable of most oni, and is filled with pride. She's also of noble heritage, which is unusual for oni, and is referred to as Her Ladyship by those around her. Her name used to be "Yuki Ishikuma", but it often got written as "Ikushima" by mistake, and nobody realized what her proper name was. She was also often called "Her Ladyship Yuki" (雪ご令嬢), which got shortened to "Setsujou" (雪嬢). In much the same way as this, she's lived for a long time as an oni who misleads other people. By the way, the other members of the Big Four usually call her "Yuki." During the current incident, the Okami Sisters took advantage of her trusting personality and tricked her into being their bodyguard.

Anza OkamiSpecies: Divine spirit
Abilities: Capable of making things even

BGM: Wavenumber Fluctuation ~Kayser Kaiser

Sibling gods who serve Atago. Koukai, the elder sister, can manipulate the concept of height, while Anza, the younger sister, has the ability to restore things to an even level. Each is more than strong enough on their own, but when the two combine their abilities, they have the power to manipulate the height and flatness of waves. Incidentally, the two of them are physics researchers specializing in wave motion, and are dead-set on getting promoted without losing to the other gods in Atago's militia. They view Tokubi, who received a high position despite having no interest in promotion, as their rival, and are desperate to establish their superiority by resolving the incident. Also, the reason they made Setsujou their bodyguard was to guard against Shiragiku's name-granting ability. The idea was to sabotage her attempts to grant names by making her misspeak.

A youkai who was on track to be the culprit behind the Hisou Tensoku Incident. For some hard-to-understand reason, she's treated like she was never there. (One could say that's just a pretext.) Daidarabocchi youkai are generally perceived as being extremely huge, but they actually project their shadows on mountain mist, manipulating it so they just look huge. Since Sasha's actual body is within that shadow, though, there's a limit to the destruction she can cause with its size. Also, since 'moonlight' in Japanese (月影) contains the character for 'shadow' (影), she can manipulate moonlight as well. Long ago, many people witnessed countless shadows appearing to dance in the moonlit mountain fog, and the story of it was passed down as that of a legendary witches' banquet. Currently, Uka has requested her services as a bodyguard; Sasha herself couldn't care less about the bodyguarding, though, and simply wanted to kill time by having a bout with Reimu and company.

She's an ally of Shiragiku's, but due to a combination of bad luck and awkwardness, she continually misses out on opportunities for promotion. She's a mathematics researcher-- unusual for Kayano's biology-worshiping army-- who specializes in statistics used for ecological investigations. (Although she dabbles in various other fields as well.) As a researcher, she's exceptionally skilled, but since she's not well-understood by Kayano-hime, her opportunities for advancement are very scarce. However, she's only weak in terms of her rank; her fighting skill totally overpowers others with danmaku derived from complex equations. Also, she's got a sword hanging off her arm, but even she doesn't understand why it's there. (Doesn't want people to pry, more like.) She hired Sasha as a bodyguard after considering her affinity with Atago's forces. Many members of Atago's forces use electricity or fire, but Sasha is a ground-type. It's definitely a good type advantage.

A superior to Aya, Hatate, etc. She's an editor for the tengu newspapers, but she also produces her own paper called the Shin Shinraku Rakuran Shinshi. Rather than taking photographs like other tengu, she records images by sketching at astonishing speed. Her ability to 'govern inversion' is the ultimate form of biased reporting. For example, if someone attempts to move to the right, she stirs things up with extremely fast sophistry and causes them to move to the left. She can even turn the truth itself on its head, so she's quite fearsome. It's certainly a fitting ability for keeping other idiosyncratic tengu in line. Currently, she's developed an interest in this incident where various intentions are interfering with each other, and has decided to conduct some interviews herself rather than editing for once. Her silhouette somehow resembles Hatate's, but don't think too hard about it.

A fairy who was on track to fight Cirno in Fairy Wars, but for some hard-to-understand reason... et cetera. She always wants to start a fight with anyone around, no matter where or when. She doesn't care whether she wins or loses, however, and wages daily war because of her belief that arguments lead to lasting friendships. She happens to be a Catharanthus roseus fairy; as such, the reason she snuck aboard the Ame-no-Torifune may be because she heard that Reimu and company were headed to see the leader of all plant life.

A mint fairy who went on a fierce rampage around the time of the previous Wicked Star Incident. In spite of being a fairy, her dense danmaku probably reduced a lot of players to tears. Currently, she's sneaking aboard the Ame-no-Torifune to meet the leader of plants, as is Vinka. The two of them ran into each other on the way, and hit it off well. One of them starts fights, and one of them calms people down. They might actually make a pretty good team.

The de facto leader of Atago's forces. Atago herself has become an incorporeal spirit, her body having died already, and so Azuma serves as her stand-in. Her powers are so fearsome that once, long ago, she overpowered a war god said to be strongest in all of Japan. That war god was actually Kanako, but that's a story for another time. She's given herself a slug motif, to represent how the Ame-no-Habakiri sword she wields is strong against snakes (its name literally meaning 'snake-cutter'). It's meant as a threat against Kayano's forces, which include many snake-like tsuchinoko. She also presides over all weaponry, can cast down lightning with a swing of her sword, and create clear skies. She uses these abilities to conduct meteorologic research, and her strength and talent led Atago to grant her the topmost rank without hesitation. She was recently locked in battle with the rival army's Kayano-hime herself, and the two topmost officers brought an end to the warfare. In an unusual turn of events, however, she lost, and the curtains closed on the war with a victory for Kayano-hime. Without knowing any of this, Reimu and company wound up getting involved in some of Atago's forces' training exercises.

Kayano-hime herself. Her standing as a god is extremely high, and her appearances before people are vanishingly rare. As opposed to Azuma, who charges forward with incredible destructive power, Mihana fights a war of resources, manipulating countless familiars to slowly corner the enemy. Azuma put up an extremely good fight, but it seems that she was at too much of a disadvantage when pitted against the Kayano armada. However, many of her familiars were destroyed by Azuma alone, and the Kayano forces were themselves dealt quite a blow. It was around that time that Marisa and company popped up to report in, upon whom she took out her frustration.

The princess's close confidante, who gallantly appears when the princess is in trouble. She makes sure not to head out unnecessarily, but instead carefully assesses the situation and plays the most beneficial role possible when she's most needed. Unlike Shiragiku, she consistently and effectively proves that she's worthy of her rank. Her 'ability to govern life' may sound like she's more powerful than Mihana herself, but it's more specifically the ability to decide the fate of beings currently being born. Kayano-hime, who can do anything at all as long as it involves plants, is superior.